Hillary Clinton's first comments about the constantly evolving situation in Ukraine may be late, but they packed a punch. At a fundraiser for the Boys and Girls Club of Long Beach, Calif., the former secretary of State compared Moscow's policy of issuing Russian passports in the Crimean region to the "population transfers" that occurred under Nazi Germany, people who attended the fundraiser tell BuzzFeed. She spoke at length on the subject, showing off her knowledge of pre-WWII diplomatic minutia. "If this sounds familiar, it's what Hitler did back in the '30s," Clinton said, according to the Long Beach Press-Telegram:
All the Germans that were... the ethnic Germans, the Germans by ancestry who were in places like Czechoslovakia and Romania and other places, Hitler kept saying they're not being treated right. I must go and protect my people and that's what's gotten everybody so nervous. [Via Long Beach Press-Telegram]
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